Guatemala - Food imports

Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Guatemala was 15.69 as of 2021. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.69 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5.87 in 1976.

Definition: Food comprises the commodities in SITC sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and SITC division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

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Year Value
1965 10.97
1966 11.49
1967 12.69
1968 11.01
1969 9.73
1970 10.98
1971 10.11
1972 9.00
1973 8.46
1974 8.30
1975 9.49
1976 5.87
1977 6.18
1978 6.93
1979 7.01
1980 7.57
1981 6.24
1982 8.63
1983 8.59
1984 7.28
1985 9.17
1986 12.11
1987 10.58
1993 11.10
1994 13.30
1995 11.86
1996 14.31
1997 13.19
1998 11.88
1999 12.68
2000 12.67
2001 14.08
2002 12.34
2003 12.62
2004 12.40
2005 10.86
2006 10.07
2007 11.31
2008 12.65
2009 13.71
2010 13.31
2011 13.21
2012 13.28
2013 13.25
2014 13.57
2015 14.27
2016 14.70
2017 14.58
2018 14.73
2019 15.57
2020 17.69
2021 15.69

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports